Is time disadvantaged youths spend online a waste or a competitive advantage?

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The New York Times dredged up a 2-1/2-year-old study to kick off a flurry of reporting about a new digital divide. The old digital divide had to do with access: Disadvantaged populations had less. Now that pretty much everyone can get online, the Times reports on a flurry of activity to ensure low-income families are digitally-literate so their children don’t get sucked into a vortex of online time wasting.

A study published in 2010 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that children and teenagers whose parents do not have a college degree spent 90 minutes more per day exposed to media than children from higher socioeconomic… Read More »

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